Maya Goo Art

Salt

Secrets

Boxes each containing a deeper and deeper secret about myself

The Vulnerability of Undressing//Secrets

Fire (For Grandma) (2016)

When my grandmother was in 1st grade, she drew fire. When her teacher asked her where she learned to draw fire so realistically she responded “ I just looked”. Her teacher brought the drawing to every classroom. 

My grandma singles that moment out as when she first knew she was an artist. As I interviewed her I heard fire coming up again and again as a sort of motif; her passion for art and life was fiery, her love for my grandpa and her 6 kids was warm, her big dinners for my extended family (using fire to cook things). Her whole house is even bathed in light. Out in the garden where we talked for over two hours, I actually got a sunburn. Everything about her is fire. 

Fringe Jacket

X-Ray of My Empty Stomach

screen printed background color leaving only the fabric as the empty spaces for food that I feel guilty eating

On Being:

Global Warming Grief

Handkerchief documenting my emotions about the destruction of the earth using flowers to symbolize emotions I feel: Lily of the Valley for sensitivity, Convolvulous Major for extinguished hopes and eternal sleep, and Bay Leaf meaning “I change but in death”. 

Behind the flowers is an embroidered inner monologue with variegated cotton thread. 

Sustainability Project

Creating a new garment from two old shirts.

Linen and Denim

Hellfire (She Remembers)

This dress takes the idea of cloth remembering resist techniques: holding the memory of the ties or stitched resist that manipulated them as a way to talk about the earth’s memory. Each layer represents an element (Rain is the arashi (”storm”) shibori outside of the dress, earth is the front inside of the dress, air is the back inside of the dress, and fire is the “hellfire” underwear. “She remembers” refers to mother earth’s memory. 

Silk organza indigo and procion dyed (two layers)

High waisted underwear in stretch rayon/polyester with cotton embroidery

The Vulnerability of Undressing//Secrets

Old Endings, New Beginnings

Narrative story told through gifs.  Photos are from the summer before I went to my first year of college through my first semester of college.

Old Endings, New Beginnings:

Narrative story told through gifs.  Photos are from the summer before I went to my first year of college through my first semester of college.

Moss Shower Shoes

Concept:  These are shoes you would put on after a shower and your wet feet and the water dripping off of you would water the live moss of the shoes

Media: Mesh, Moss, “Baby’s Tears” plant